2009 Volume 6 Pages 58-67
One of the ways to treat used fluorescent tubes safely and usefully is to construct the route to take them to recycling facilities without breaking them. An experiment on the collection of them, using economic instruments, conducted in Toyonaka, Osaka, has an implication to the construction. In this paper, the experimental results are discussed to derive the following implications. First, the system in the experiment promotes the collection of used fluorescent tubes. Second, restrictions of the economic incentives in the system do not have such a negative effect on the collection of used fluorescent tubes. Third, the system has a possibility to decrease the management cost, and can acquire a good evaluation from consumers; and we should proceed to consider this system more.
